the sexual energy between this man and himself is TOO mucch

There’s just something I love about seeing a man dance so elegantly in work boots and cargo pants

Sergei doing a half a dozen fouette turns in work boots, and pointed toes just shows how immensely talented he is! So beautiful to watch. 🩰

Wow Sergei's dancing is sublime. It's masculine and so elegant. The jumps are so powerful but light and precise.

I feel like I was just told a story, but in a language I do not speak.

I love how he danced to “take me to church” and now he’s in the offical video for a hozier song

I don't know what the true meaning or story of this video is but I interpreted it as someone facing himself and also finding himself through the movement. As he dances he finds more versions of himself, more faces he might have not found otherwise. I love it. This song is so special to me.

Polunin dancing on Hozier's song.......poetry in motion, LITERALLY!

Polunin: Leaps through air gracefully wearing jacket, jeans, and boots Me: Trips on my shoestrings wearing velcro shoes

"You're less Polunin leapin' , or Fred Astaire in sequence. Honey, you, you're Atlas in his sleepin'" to compare someone not more of the artistic expression of an awe-aspiring dancer, but instead, to a strong, unfathomable yearning to move from an entity eternally entrapped in a state of inertia, burdened between the weight of the heavens and the grinding earth beneath him he could only be free to move within the sanctuary of his subconscious is * chef kiss *

it is 2023 and this is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful songs and most stunning breathtaking videos, that I have ever been graced with. Thank you.

it's astounding how much chemistry sergei and shirtless!sergei have

I feel like I just saw something so personal, almost as If I wasn’t supposed to see this. One’s inner fight with himself.

i cant escape my demons, they know how to *BUST A MOVE*

I can't describe it, but at about 2:47, when the choir starts singing, I feel like the human prison I'm trapped in is ripped away, revealing my iridescent soul, and I can finally be free enough to dance with the wind, and it feels like my tears can become star dust, and this new form is limitless, and my heart pounds from the depths of my soul, and I want to sing and raise my voice so loud the moon will hear it. It feels like what true, pure, love feels like. Not a soft, gentle love, but loud, adrenaline inducing, heart pounding, love that no man could ever truly give me. It feels like the universe's excitement, love, and longing for adventure put into song form, for us mere humans to enjoy.

I still watch you when you're groovin' As if through water from the bottom of a pool You're movin' without movin' And when you move, I'm moved You are a call to motion There, all of you a verb in perfect view Like Jonah on the ocean When you move, I'm moved When you move I'm put to mind of all that I wanna be When you move I could never define all that you are to me So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby You are the rite of movement Its reasonin' made lucid and cool I know it's no improvement When you move, I move You're less Polunin leapin' Or Fred Astaire in sequins Honey, you, you're Atlas in his sleepin' And when you move, I'm moved When you move I can recall somethin' that's gone from me When you move Honey, I'm put in awe of somethin' so flawed and free So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to prove And nothin' to lose Move me, baby Ooh, ooh, ooh Oh baby, oh baby Move like grey skies Move like a bird of paradise Move like an odd sight come out at night Move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to lose And nothin' to prove Move me, baby So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby

The emotion in this is so strong it made me try Sergei's movements in the middle of the living room. I fell of course and hurt my knee. But it was worth letting it out.

When you wanna dance off your demons but they also want to dance

The fact he can turn that effortlessly and perfectly in HEAVY WORK BOOTS shows his power

Being someone who isn’t as initiated to ballet, I find this to be a very cool introduction. The power, agility and grace come together so well. A great display of athleticism.

Does Hozier have any idea what his voice does to our hormones?

"When you move , honey, I'm put in awe of somethin' so flawed and free" honestly he didn't have to go so hard but he did and I'm so grateful

This has got to be one of the finest music videos ever made. After watching it a couple of hundred times, I can confidently state that it is an excellent combination of music, story and dance.

Never knew this song. Its now being used by Kia, in an ad in the Netherlands. This song catches me. The video is actually the perfect visualization. I love this. The struggle, the duel, the conflict, passion, it has it all.

Hozier is a once in a lifetime artist, I haven't heard one song I didn't like, relate too, or didn't speak to my soul. This man is the embodiment of God giving talent.

men: "not ALL men..." me: "you're right. hozier would never"

I LOVE Hozier, this song and this video. After 4 years, still gives me the chills. Timeless. And, for me, the BEST video ever! ❤

This song is just so powerful because it's you who are telling yourself to move instead of another person telling you to. It's fine, it's completely fine if there's no one by your side as long as YOU are by your side. You don't need anyone to motivate you, YOU are more than enough to pick yourself up without needing anybody. Instead of waiting for someone to pick you up, let your own self be the one you are looking for.

He walks the line between gothic folk and popular rock so well.

A man, his demon, his angel, and his past. Moving

falling in love with Hozier's music feels like a religious experience that I can't explain and can barely understand 🥺

who is listening this gem in 2024?

Hozier's voice and Sergei's movement are beautiful together.

Sirius Black when he escaped from Azkaban:

Sergei is amazing. Putting what so many of us feel into movement. He just makes sense of life's challenges. 🌟

Love this song, but it's watching Sergei dance that does it for me. Watching him dance is so hypotonzing and relaxing.

It’s not even just the voice of iconic proportions; it’s the lyrics that make your soul shudder

I am so happy to see Sergei Polunin and Hozier officially working together.

Sergei's talent moves me beyond words. Phenomenal

2:45 always goosebumps... the Dance performance + the incredible music... just perfection

My excitement is immeasurable and my day is saved

Over-controlling vs. self destruction in one's passion.

For me it's clear this song is about the movements that a lover (who is about to leave you) causes in yourself, the dance seems a metaphor for the experience of being in love. He got two versions, one white and the other dark, as the decision of "should I stay or should I go?", the angel and the devil whispering in your ears. But just as we are astonished seeing him dancing, the narrator is as well, while watching his lover's departure movements

SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

Hozier: "you're less Polunin leapin'" literally has Polunin leaping in the video

the “atlas in his sleepin” part, he actually does the atlas “carrying the world on his shoulders” pose 1:32

Hozier's voice combined with Polunin's dance touch a string of my soul I didn't even know existed. I don't know what's happening here but I just feel something deep inside that makes me rewatch this masterpiece again and again.

Hozier has the most deep and profound lyrics and vocals combined that produce such an intense sensual experience, it’s hard not to laugh or cry listening to his music..

Sergei dances like Hozier sings, It's HEAVENLY.

Sergei’s dancing and Hozier’s vocals are phenomenal together 👌🏻

Sergei Polunin is the GOAT...God bless Him. The best dancer nowdays with his deep feelings ,expressions, and technical movement. Take a bow..

My grandaughter introduced me to Hozier with his first Album. I LOVE LOVE LOVE HIS VOICE and even though sometimes the lyrics are racy I still know every word to every song. I so love Movement and Wasteland. ( I am 83!!)

Damn this man and his references to mythology will be the death of me...Comparing his lover to Atlas in his sleeping...Such a perfect way to state '' You're my world'' ''You move me just by being'' So poetic

“When you move i moved” that line can be so threatening or so comforting. It reminds me of arsonists lullaby. “Never tame your demons, but always keep them on a leash.” The pain and the suffering. The peace and the love. The hurting and the healing. Your demons are there with you. Keeping you company in your own madness. You may ignore them but they remain. 2:46 feels like the fight. Am I letting the chaos take hold or am I going to settle for peace. Just blows my mind how these lyrics make me feel and think.

what I love about this is that the messy is the point. he's falling, getting back up, learning, changing... occasionally in sync with his better nature, and occasionally in sync with his darker impulses but ALWAYS moving. There is no good vs evil here, it's a constant flow of existence, a constant flux of complex movement and emotion. That triple jump EVERYTHING. I realize it's just the one guy but the way it matches (including the darker one trying and falling) is PERFECTION.

Play this at my birth, wedding and funeral

This man deserves MUCH more appreciation for his music than he's actually given.

I come back and watch this every few months and afterward I always feel like I've just watched the best horror movie. The amazing voice, the dancer, the multiple "selves," the discomfort, the fleeing, the inevitability, it grips me from beginning to end. A true work of art.

Disgustingly good coreography

So glad that Hozier keeps releasing music! Inevitably, he's going to have to crawl back into his mossy log, to care for the woods by stripping away diseased bark with careful hands and teeth, to cuddle the fox cubs as their mothers are away on hunts, but it'll be great to hear his new music while it lasts!

I have a crazy mad huge crush on Sergei's dancing. I cant't believe how talented he is, ever since his Royal Ballet days he has been the epitome of what art should be. It's so good to see him alongside with Hozier, nothing but respect to them.

The opening with the lonely chimes is so addicting to listen to.

This is such a perfect pairing- Hozier and Sergei - they have some raw beauty in common

That's more like it. This is the direction I was hoping Hozier would take his sound. Different elements, lyrical, unnatural key change that only he can pull off. Top drawer!

This is painfully underrated. People need to HEAR this. People need to SEE this. People need to APPRECIATE this.

For me this video shows what it's like to have mental health struggles. You are quite literally fighting yourself and your own demons. But they have your face. Sometimes you win against yourself and sometimes you don't. It's such a beautiful video

This battle between the character's good side and his bad side really seems to illustrate Polunin's social media presence and his personal politics. He writes "love manifestos" and says he longs for world peace, and then he turns around and gets another Putin tattoo.

Can we all just appreciate the fact that Sergei worked his butt off for his entire difficult life so that he could reach this place of being able to dance better than anyone else, and the most beautifully, and now he can do anything he wants. Like this video. And the first Hozier video. Stunning.

The dancer (Sergei Polunin) is the same one who danced to "Take me to Church" three years ago. Iconic.

I am new to Hozier, and this is a song and an artist for the ages, He is certainly MOVING me!💖

This song and music video always makes me feel all my feelings all at once, in a very unearthly way

When people invented the phrase "poetry in motion", they had this in mind.

Amazing that Sergei Polunin danced on a Take Me To Church unofficial music video, and is now dancing on a Hozier song once again, but now it's the official music video

Seeing this live was probably top 10 experience of my life

Hozier and Polunin are a perfect match! Both once in a generation creatives. Grateful it is in my generation. thank you for sharing your gifts.

His voice is the chaos. His voice alone is the calm. His voice is the catharsis. His voice is the eternal muse.

I love how his rage, his nihilism is portrayed as the active presence - his objectively 'good' self is passive, only a comment upon his tormented state, not interested enough to participate in the battle for his mind. At the start of the video it is his despair that begins the journey with him, his objective goodness that observes his downfall, but it is his rage that follows him closely, claws at his mind, sees his weakness and acts on it, with it, in it, every time. It is that nihilistic rage that will push him off of that rooftop, his goodness that will observe it wordlessly, and his despair that will watch it happen, helpless, not knowing whether to be in anguish at the futility of it or at the realization that the rage, acting without comment from the good, may have been justified.

Even today, this song still moves me each time i hear it

The fact he actually has Sergei Polunin in this video is mental.

This song is gonna be on repeat till the end of 2018, maybe even till the end of 2020.

So happy he's back. this man's music gives me life

This song speaks to me on so many levels, speak to me in a language that only my soul understand, I never feel so related to a specific song until I find Hozier's song....

I would love to see Polunin in more films, I believe he could be a wonderful actor

Can we take a moment to appreciate the amount of strength and technique the dancer used? Like goals, my word. How free and fluid the movements were, and the level of control he used in each intricate motion. He also fully embodied the music. I actually teared up. *claps*

I didn't want this to end, Hozier for the ears and Sergei for the eyes. What more could one ask for?

Still didn't get enough of this banger

Обожаю Хозиера и Сергея Полунина ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Гениальные люди!!!

I love when Sergei combines his passion with Hozier's. It's not simply dance and music. It's so much more powerful than those limiting terms.

Sergei is such a beautiful dancer. I feel like this piece was so him because. I feel like he is actually fighting with himself and battling his own emotions and his mental stability

Sergei Polunin dancing is like… a dream

His voice is so special, this song is truly beautiful.

I am always equally excited about the comments under hozier content. It is so respecting and uplifting and nice down here. I like you all.

Therapist : evil Polunin isnt real, he can't hurt you Me : i want him to hurt me

By far my favorite song. Ever made. Always moves me. Thank you.

Love Sergei Polunin ❤

I can't find the lyrics guy I'll be the lyrics guy I still watch you when you're groovin' As if through water from the bottom of a pool You're movin' without movin' And when you move, I'm moved You are a call to motion There, all of you a verb in perfect view Like Jonah on the ocean When you move, I'm moved When you move I'm put to mind of all that I wanna be When you move I could never define all that you are to me So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby You are the rite of movement Its reasonin' made lucid and cool I know it's no improvement When you move, I move You're less Polunin leapin' Or Fred Astaire in sequins Honey, you, you're Atlas in his sleepin' And when you move, I'm moved When you move I can recall somethin' that's gone from me When you move Honey, I'm put in awe of somethin' so flawed and free So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to prove And nothin' to lose Move me, baby Ooh, ooh, ooh Oh baby, oh baby Move like grey skies Move like a bird of paradise Move like an odd sight come out at night Move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby So move me, baby Like you've nothin' left to lose And nothin' to prove Move me, baby So move me, baby Shake like the bough of a willow tree You do it naturally Move me, baby

Hozier is sacreligiously religious he conveys something I've never heard before, a sacred power in his voice conveyed perfectly with the music

Wowwwww very emotional song. Thanks to you 🌻🎶🌟

Oh what a beautiful choreography and of course the divine prowess of Sergei

Here's my take: in the beginning, he is being moved by his inner demons--what he is trying to escape from. He literally spins out of control. Then, for a moment, he allows himself to be moved by hope, until he closes himself off to it in the elevator, feeling he is not worth it. In the white is his future self who knows what he had to go through. That is why he can't help. Hope runs after him to pull him back.